The maritime sector’s greenhouse gas reduction targets are increasing interest in sustainable fuels compatible with existing diesel engine infrastructure. In this study, pure biodiesel of animal origin (AN100), pure biodiesel of plant origin (VG100), and conventional diesel fuel were experimentally compared in a single-cylinder, direct-injection diesel engine under controlled load conditions relevant to small-scale marine dies...

Axon-carrying dendrites, AcDs, have been reported in hippocampus to be privileged dendrites which can directly feed synaptic inputs into an axonal output bypassing the soma and escaping somatic inhibition. In non-primate neocortex, 15–20% of the pyramidal cells have basal AcDs and comparable proportions occurred in organotypic cortex cultures. How does an axon happen to emerge from a dendrite? Very immature migrating pyramidal...

Osteoarthritis (OA) primarly involves the degradation of joint cartilage and requires new treatments. REJENERA © , a newly developed nutraceutical formula against OA, contains primarily olive leaf bioflavonoids ( ZeyEX © , quercetin and luteolin), S -allylcysteine, palmitoylethanolamide, l -proline, hyaluronic acid and boron. This study focuses on the efficacy of REJENERA in treating knee OA and aims to compare it with ZeyEX,...

Purpose Restoration of physiological aortic hemodynamics is a crucial therapeutic target after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). However, quantifying this restoration is challenging, particularly using conventional markers. This study presents a novel, unsupervised approach based on proper orthogonal decomposition (POD), suitable for holistic characterization of patient-specific aortic flow field and their associ...